Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process. Volume 2: Characterizing the City. Final Report of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project, 1994-1997
By (author) Roger H. White By (author) C. Gaffney By (author) V. L. Gaffney
Paperback (Published)
(March 2013)
ISBN: 9781905739615
8.31 x 11.69 inches
Price: $80.00
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In the mid-1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to intensive geophysical survey. This volume reports on the archaeological interpretation of this work, marrying the geophysical data with a detailed analysis of the existing aerial photographic record created by Arnold Baker 1950s-1980s.
In the mid 1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to one of the most intensive campaigns of geophysical survey ever carried out on a Roman town. The result was a complete plan of the city using magnetometry but also significant deployment of other technologies including resistance, GPR and more experimental technologies. Since that time, geophysical survey has continued intermittently, using the site as a geophysical laboratory. This volume reports on the archaeological interpretation of this work, marrying the extensive and nuanced geophysical data with a detailed analysis of the existing aerial photographic record created by Arnold Baker during the 1950s to 1980s. The resulting work is the first insula by insula description of all the visible buildings in the town, the first time that this has been attempted for a Romano-British town, and one of the few attempted anywhere in the Empire. The analysis has enabled a complete reinterpretation of the historical development of the town that links it to its surrounding hinterland and to wider concerns about Roman Urban development. The volume also contains detail of small-scale excavations that have been carried out since 1999 on the site, many in previously unexplored areas, and completes the publication of all outstanding archaeological work on the monument
CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND ;
CHAPTER 2: EXCAVATIONS ;
CHAPTER 3: THE WROXETER ATLAS ;
CHAPTER 4: CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW ;
CHAPTER 5: BUILDING AN INTERPRETATION OF WROXETER ;
SUMMARY ;
RÉSUMÉ FRANÇAIS ;
DEUTSCHE ZUSAMMENFASSUNG ;
6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Roger H. White recently retired from the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham after 26 years service there as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer. He first worked at Wroxeter in 1976 as a digger but then progressed to be Project Manager of the post-excavation project and then was a Principal Investigator on the Wroxeter Hinterland Project. His book Britannia Prima. Britain’s last Roman province (2007) was the winner of the Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2008.
- By (author) Roger H. White
- By (author) C. Gaffney
- By (author) V. L. Gaffney
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